Oh yeah, Pixelvision. That toy camera made by Fisher Price in the 1980's is now my newest baby. Boy does the picture quality suck but that's exactly what I want. I got it on Ebay for a little under $100 (which apparently is a great deal) and it came with original tape and a few other parts. If you are unfamiliar with the technical specs of Pixelvision, I'll fill you in:
Black and White
15 fps
less than 100 lines of resolution (standard NTSC has almost 500)
A frame within a frame viewing area
pinhole lens for optimal depth of field
records both sound and image
uses audio tapes
6 AA batteries or a 12V DC converter
(http://www.speakeasy.org/~joem/Pxl/images/pxl_shad.gif)
(http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:DdTFYPnAgvoJ:www1.hollins.edu/classes/dance)
That's not me, but Sadie Benning, the girl most synonymous with Pixelvision. She used the camera when it first came out to document her coming into lesbianism during adolesence. When I figure out how to convert the image to a MiniDV tape or something digital, I'll post some pictures of what the camera can do. I'm so excited.
Scottie wrote:
That's not me, but Sadie Benning, the girl most synonymous with
> Pixelvision.
I was gonna say that she looks like a very hung over young Jodie Foster.
As for Pixelvision....never heard of it and I grew up in the 80's.
Wonder how that slipped by me?
Post Edited (08-27-05 18:05)
I remember having seen a television commercial for this or something similar in the eighties. In the commercial, they had a special monitor in which you placed the cassette after taping. I think the selling point was suppose to be a unit which was about the size of a super 8 camera, but with the convenience of video tape, as video cameras at the time were large or required a separate recorder to be carried.